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  • Post-Soviet Russia

    A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era

    Translated by George Shriver ...
    by Roy A. Medvedev ...
    Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a society in crisis but—for reasons both complex and obvious—were destined to fail. From the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

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  • Russians

    The People behind the Power

    by Gregory Feifer ...
    From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today.Russians explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Forged From Silver Dollar

    by Li Feng ...
    'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's WeeklyOne family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.Li Feng grew up in Mao's communist China with her mother's motto burning in her ears - Success demands two things: unconditional sacrifice and absolute mental focus. Finally breaking free of her mother's overbearing clutches and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Next Revolution

    Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

    by Murray Bookchin, Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.With a foreword by the best-selling author of The ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Work, Discipline, and Order to Save the Socialist Soviet Republic

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
    "Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." — Foreign AffairsUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Communist Manifesto

    by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    The Communist ManifestoFriedrich ENGELS (1820 - 1895) and Karl MARX (1818 - 1883)The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European Powers were universally afraid of the nascent movement, and were condemning as "communist," people or activities that did not actually conform to what the Communists believed. This ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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  • Sputnik The Soviet Challenge

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Sputnik blasted off in late 1957 and the Space Age and Space Race between the Cold War adversaries heated up. U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was under pressure to do more in the science and military fields to catch up to the Soviet breakthrough. Sputnik I and it successors generated a debate inside political circles and among the American public. Was the Vanguard Rocket program of the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Romancing the Revolution

    The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left

    by Ian Bullock ...
    Over two decades have passed since the collapse of the USSR, yet the words "Soviet Union" still carry significant weight in the collective memory of millions. But how often do we consider the true meaning of the term "Soviet"? Drawing extensively on left-wing press archives, Romancing the Revolution traces the reactions of the British Left to the idealized concept of Soviet democracy. Focusing on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Stalinist Becomes Bogomil

    by Michael Yarbrough ...
    At war´s end, Europe was divided between ourselves and the Soviet Union. With the author, Michael Yarbrough, it has never been an issue whether our side of the barbed-wire was the better place to be. I’ve ALWAYS assumed as much. But I’ve ALWAYS regarded it as beside the point.The point is that on our side, there was the reconstitution with brilliant reforms of the very socio-economic order that ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Gendering Radicalism

    Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California

    by Beth Slutsky ...
    Series series Women in the West
    In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying member of the Young Communist League. Nearly forty years later, in 1966, Kendra Claire Harris ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815

    by Curtis P. Nettels ...
    Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD